in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用gaol
- N-VAR 监狱;看守所
A jail is a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
- Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
3名囚犯越狱了。
- VERB 使入狱;监禁
If someone is jailed, they are put into jail.
- He was jailed for twenty years.
他被判了20年监禁。